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Little League started in West Des Moines about 1951. I played Little League at Holiday Park in 1981. But the time had come to move away from Little League. Their calendar was too restrictive.

Like their offline counterparts, online shoppers have favorite retailers that they frequently visit. They are very familiar with the retailer's brand name and tend to go directly to their sites. However, some gifts may involve more research, in which case search engines and shopping comparison sites come into play. Most shoppers use a variety of channels to get their holiday shopping done.

I wish I had had three or four months to work through a number of various marketing programs. With the holiday season upon us, we have to take decisive action now.

It doesn't have to be a holiday season or multiple deaths, when it happens it's devastating. It's a parents' worst nightmare and I feel like I'm a parent to 2,000 students here.

Many achievements of the Soviet epoch laid the foundation for modern society. All this should be remembered. The repeal of the Nov. 7 holiday will bring nobody the laurels of a hero.

Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc..

The 2005 holiday season was a gadget year for consumers of all ages, and consumers continued to show their love for free shipping.

The advance we've seen over the last month has been a reaction to fundamentals. Those fundamentals remain, and as long as we get a fairly solid holiday season, I think we'll continue to see stocks move up.

The announcement by Neiman Marcus...makes us as concerned as we have ever been that this Christmas will be extremely lackluster. It appears now the high-end consumer is beginning to scale back their purchases, which does not bode well for the holiday season. This type of thing is clearly going to have an impact on other high-end retailers.

The 2002 holiday season will likely be a moderate one, not blowing away modest expectations, but not disappointing them either.

Most importantly, include potential tax payments in your budget of expenses. Plan ahead to pay taxes just as you plan ahead to pay for holiday gifts, birthday celebrations, and more.

Meteorology also plays a role. There is a peak before Christmas: this is not because industrial activity, domestic heating or transportation is suddenly reduced after the holiday season but because there is an eastward outflow of air that was previously revolving around Asia. This is the same type of phenomenon that carries dust from the Gobi Desert across to the West Coast of the US.

Widespread layoffs and rising unemployment do not signal a rebound in confidence anytime soon, ... With the holiday season quickly approaching, there is little positive stimuli on the horizon.

We have PEO and bridge clubs who meet here a lot. Several businesses have their holiday or annual meetings here. Caterers come in for special events and use our kitchen facility. We also have groups from town decorate each room at Christmas and we're featured in Wakefield's Tour of Homes at that time.

You have to deliberately want to go to White Oaks. There's no McDonald's. There's not a Holiday Inn. There's no reason to go there other than to follow the Old Western history.

You can basically get an Italian-style holiday in Croatia at about one-fifth the price.

Will the anticipation of more expensive bills hurt holiday sales? I don't think so. I think consumer spending will see more of a marginal change rather than a substantial change, primarily at the lower-income level.

Winning was like going on a crap holiday and coming back as Elvis.

We continue to make very good progress on executing our strategic initiatives. During the quarter we continued our plan to invest heavily in remodeling and enhancing the customer experience in our U.S. toy stores, ... We remain confident that the improvement being made will deliver substantial benefits to Toys 'R' Us beginning with this year's holiday season and will allow us to better grow and enhance our business well into the future.

We continue to be pretty bullish about the trend this holiday season. I didn't see any shopping mall specialty stores that had the kind of traffic we did, ... It's certainly a testament to what the brand stands for.

We continue to believe that the company has been making incremental improvements in its product offerings at all divisions. We believe that fall and holiday assortments are largely complete, and that most marketing and merchandising decisions have been made and implemented.

We can't extrapolate from the retailers' performance in the first part of the year how retailers' will fare in the second half of the year, ... Will the holiday season be as solid as last year? I'm not sure of that yet. It may be a middle-of-the-road performance.

When it's all over, I expect holiday sales to be flat to up 1 percent, which would be the lowest reading since 1990. That's what I see for Christmas.

We chuckle when we hear about the short-term holiday effect because the way that EA has been growing their revenue and earnings year in and year out makes it something we want to hold for a long time,

We really appreciate the assistance during this time of year, which is typically a slow period for donations after the busy holiday season.

We're a little more positive about the outlook of the holiday shopping season than we were in October.

We do it for the children and for people to get more into the holiday spirit.

While aggressive competition between retailers, OEMs and component suppliers as well as the holiday seasonal rush helped spur this (price) decline, ... The most prominent culprit was the rise of sub-$800 computers.

Without a doubt, there was no question which tournament we'd be at this year. We've got a great team this year, and we're looking forward to showcasing it at the best, most competitive holiday event in the country.

We expect a big jump in consumer confidence now that the effects of Katrina and higher gas prices are further behind us. Higher confidence will lead to a better-than-expected holiday shopping season as well.

We essentially are giving up holiday 2006, and for notebook makers that is going to impact their bottom line quite a bit. The first quarter is the slowest quarter of the year for any PC (sales).

We figure if we are going to have a holiday tournament, we need to make it a large one. With our facility we can host more teams and not be overcrowded.

We are tremendously pleased with the opening weekend results for 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' in both IMAX and conventional theatres. The unique experience that IMAX theatres offer moviegoers is generating incremental revenue for our event films, proven by this giant record-setting opening weekend and advance ticket sales at IMAX theatres. We look forward to continued success as we enter the holiday season.

We are thrilled to forge this new partnership. This new agreement is consistent with our strategy to partner with brands that are leaders in their respective category, and will further our goal to create innovative and powerful platforms that will further engage consumers at both MLB ballparks and Holiday Inn hotels across the country.

We must look at the role of Lake Maloney in the whole system in order to best manage and conserve water. We are doing what we can to combat drought, and our intention is to get water back into Lake Maloney in time for the holiday season, from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

We believe there is upside to our estimates due to strong execution, overall strength in the devices segment and a relatively strong holiday selling season.

We will absolutely be competitive with Wal-Mart this holiday season.

We've made our list and want consumers to check it twice, ... Preventing needles tragedies and providing a safe environment are the best holiday gifts parents can provide their children.

Valentine's Day is the second largest holiday for giving greeting cards after Christmas.

With the U.S. slowdown looking more real each day, the trade deficit may have passed its peak. The slowdown hadn't hit full force yet in October. U.S. consumers are still sucking in massive amounts of imports. The slowdown will be more clearly seen in November and December's figures. If imported goods start to pile up on retailers' shelves this holiday season, imports could drop off fast.

The living are just the dead on holiday

We have had a series of rate increases since last year, and so far we have not felt any impact on retailing off all of these increases. However, eventually something will have to give. I would predict that, say towards the end of the year, the fourth quarter, the very all-important holiday fourth quarter, we are going to see that the rate increases will finally take a bite. And that could be a comfort to retailing.

We were hoping it would follow the Holiday Bowl tradition of a high-scoring game and a lot of yards gained. The only pattern we've seen in the Holiday Bowl is people don't turn their televisions off.

We were somewhat taken aback. Normally, what we see after a very busy holiday travel season is demand dropping off. Unfortunately, this year, we're seeing just the opposite.

Today was -- and I expect tomorrow to be -- quiet. I think many people have already begun the Easter holiday and it would take a big surprise in something tomorrow for the market to move very strongly one way or the other.

Today was a holiday for some people and that's why we had light volume,

Travel is the gift of choice this holiday season,

Today's numbers show that consumers are not very optimistic about the economy. As a result, we will see consumer spending reduced until we see some relief on energy prices. If we don't get some relief, it looks like it will be a very weak holiday season.

When I first told people I was writing a book, some would say that was interesting, but others thought it was some holiday project and I would lose interest. I think my parents thought the same thing, and they were surprised when I kept going. I'm not sure I thought I would keep going, but then it became a big part of my life.

We are well positioned for the holiday season and look forward to continued double-digit growth in sales and, more importantly, earnings,

The pressure is on, ... This holiday season is being held to a high standard in terms of quality, because we always need that quality, and in terms of the box office.

Those are what we typically see in the E.R.. Some 40 to 50 percent of what comes through the E.R. over the New Year's holiday is a direct result of drinking alcohol.

We are disappointed that sales have not materialized to the degree we had expected, but we point to the fact that the company is expected to show between 12 percent and 22 percent growth in revenue versus the same quarter last year and that we are serving customers exceptionally well this holiday season.

We'll have a bit of a break here, we're not expecting any storms of the magnitude we saw over the holiday weekend.

Unfortunately, we weren't able to accommodate everyone who wanted to visit our park during the Chinese New Year -- and we regret that anyone may have been inconvenienced. Based on our experience this week, we'll go back and make sure our ticketing policies better reflect the heavy demand around peak holiday periods.

Unfortunately, we still have Iraq dominating the news and any changes in the situation there will have a big affect -- although I think we are in a period now that's seasonally strong for the market, especially in technology. So, I think everyone's going to be very focused on how companies are doing in this fourth quarter and then, obviously, the holiday season.

Togolese want to celebrate this victory. So the whole government has decided to declare Monday, October 10 as a paid holiday across the whole country,

We are seeing nice traffic up to the last minute. We think (the holiday season) is going right down to the wire.

We're not that far apart. Our goal is to get this completed prior to the winter holiday break.

We are on schedule for the launch of Office 2007 by the end of this year for businesses and by early 2007 for consumers. We have scheduled the launch of consumer version in such a way that it is available after the holiday season.

We are not going to reveal what the drinks are right now, but in regard to Martian Colony we can say it will be Green and the Marty and Artie drink will be health conscious. Child obesity is big issue today and when you drink the Martian Colony drink, we think you will be out of this world. Hat Trick beverage will release additional details in the coming weeks and we are hoping to unveil the Martian Colony drink first by the end of spring, and the Marty and Artie drink in conjunction with the DVD release for the Winter Holiday Season.

When he came back he was astonished to find that the prime minister issued a letter ordering Dr. Ibrahim to stay 30 more days on holiday because of his disagreement and his threats to resign from office.

We are going to try to either not work on football weekends or work in ways that don't affect traffic where maybe we won't close the whole thing or maybe just close one side. We also have the holiday season coming up. We've got this entire shopping center, we've got a complex on either side of the interstate. We have to take them into consideration.

We're coming into the heat of the holiday season and we're not seeing any discernible changes. Most of our customers are bullish.

Wal-Mart's news is a very big deal. There's no doubt that a significant number of consumers are shopping paycheck to paycheck. Most are also waiting for price reductions. So saying that the consumer is still cautious is a good indicator that the holiday season will only be moderately better than last year.

Wal-Mart's news is a very big deal, ... There's no doubt that a significant number of consumers are shopping paycheck to paycheck. Most are also waiting for price reductions because they know that the support of another tax rebate or tax reduction is unlikely. So saying that the consumer is still cautious is a good indicator that the holiday season will only be moderately better than last year.

Wal-Mart pushed its holiday promotions earlier than most of its competition and so was much stronger coming out of the gate. And then their steam putters out.

Wal-Mart has made it very clear that the prospects for this holiday are much stronger than the conventional wisdom would have had it.

To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday.

Traditionally, Christmas Day is the busiest day of the year at 7-Eleven. A majority of our customers are men, and many have come to depend on another holiday tradition -- 7-Eleven being open round the clock on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Tracy (Anderson) and I had talked about having a holiday tournament for some time, and now that our program is stable, we believe this is a perfect time for it. It's going to be in the middle of the winter, and I think that it's going to be easy for us to market, and it'll give us an opportunity to showcase UTPA.

This stronger consumer sentiment may yet translate into solid core consumer spending for the holiday season.

Today, only about one-third of holiday purchases are returned as compared to just four years ago, ... Returns are very expensive for retailers because they have to retag the item and mark down the price. If I bought something for $29 and return it, store may have to cut the price to as low as $14 before restocking it.

The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

We were a little concerned. It was a tough Christmas holiday and you never get Christmas back. Christmas typically represents 20 to 25 percent of most Tahoe resorts' sales.

We worked out a package which rewards all of those who ride our system. It wasn't quite perfect. I'll probably admit that, but I think it was very nice and I am proud of the board for giving this holiday present to all of our customers.

We want to have people in place by the holiday season. We're making a considerable investment, not only in the facility but in the people staffing that facility.

We began October with continued traffic challenges. However, traffic improved at the end of the month, likely due to favorable weather trends and the delivery of our holiday merchandise.

XM has always had an enormous push during the holiday season, but this holiday campaign is our biggest holiday marketing push yet. This is a marketing campaign aimed directly at holiday shoppers.

Xbox does have a material impact for Microsoft in the December quarter because of the holiday shopping season. The fact it was capacity constrained in December will probably create some headwinds for their overall quarter.

Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there, every day.

I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up...

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

Halloween is just a made up holiday, created by the razor blade industry.

What we saw was a likely bifurcation of retailers this holiday season, with those catering to affluent consumers doing very well. The balance of retailers had to work harder for sales and do more discounting.

What we're trying to do is establish a holiday tradition downtown, sort of like Westlake Center in Seattle.

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there.

I enjoy been on holidays because you can do whatever you want and people can't say anything to you.

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

Everybody does that now. We all take pics... you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on it, even though you’re not really there when you’re taking the picture ‘cause you’re too busy recording it - so you retrospectively go to look back on where you weren’t and tell yourself you had a good time.

When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?

This is a great opportunity for gear heads to celebrate the holiday, show off their hot rods and visit the aquarium.

I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.

When I was 16 I got a school holiday job at Minton's pottery factory in Staffordshire, packing plates. For a month's work, I was paid £44. Everything I now know about the birds and the bees, I learnt there.

When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on the beach.